This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...
Apr. 2—Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire.
The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...
Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...
Asking me to write a review of Peter Leithart's defense of Emperor Con­stantine may seem like asking the fox to inspect the henhouse. My work, after all, has been closely identified with that of John ...
New York: The Overlook Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi, 358. Illus., maps, gloss., abbrev., biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1590203240 It is difficult to write a biography of ...